DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy Fight

October 1, 2010

The Justice Department announced this week that Law enforcement agencies throughout the United States would receive almost $4 million in grants to fight intellectual property infringement. Police departments and District Attorneys in California, North Carolina, Florida, New York, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas will get a chunk of the money, according to The Wrap.

The Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, the National Crime Prevention Council, the National Association of Attorneys General, and the National White Collar Crime Center were also on the list to receive grant money.

The Motion Picture Association of America was supportive of the grant money, for obvious reasons:

"The motion picture industry, along with all U.S. creative industries, leads the U.S. economy in contributing to job growth, and protecting the economic engine these industries represent from theft is critical," MPAA president and interim CEO Bob Pisano said.

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Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 18:27.

This is a waste of time money effort.....

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Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by DorkmasterFlek on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 07:44.

Well this is utter crap. Not only are they using taxpayer money to enforce the outdated business models of private corporations, but they're effectively bribing the police to do it. Police agencies have consistently said that they have better things to do than chase after copyright infringers, like you know, catch murders and rapists.

Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by hellfire7885 on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 11:32.

Not to mention copyright holders treat their infringement as worse than those afformentioned crimes.

"Oh no, someone didn't pay 99 cents for that song, call the police, mobilize SWAT!!!!"

"Help, I've been raped!"

"Get in line princess, my wallet is in danger"

Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by Thad on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 10:50.

Moreover, copyright enforcement is supposed to be the domain of the FBI, not local PD's.

Re: DOJ Gives $4M in Grants to Law Enforcement for Piracy ...

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 18:27.

Meh they have subed it out to ICE since they are not picking up many illegals these days. . .

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Zen: On a funny side note...both of my boys have already voted NOT to get the Xbox One as soon as they found out Minecraft won't transfer lol. Some people have priorities damnit! ;)05/21/2013 - 9:27pm

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james_fudge: thnx05/21/2013 - 4:47pm

Zen: Just to let ya know...you called it the "Xbox 260" in the backwards compatibility article lol.05/21/2013 - 4:26pm

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PHX Corp: @Zen I sent you a friend request on both PSN and XBL, just a heads up05/21/2013 - 4:16pm

Zen: I noticed it with the football players when EA showed off Madden as well.05/21/2013 - 4:11pm

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james_fudge: it sounds like if you have an HD reciever you'll be able to use it with a pass-through cable... not 100 percent sure yet05/21/2013 - 2:41pm

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james_fudge: yeah good luck with over the air TV05/21/2013 - 2:12pm

E. Zachary Knight: But what if I want to only watch over the air tv? I don't subscribe to pay tv. I never will. If that is a requirement, then MS wasted 45 minutes telling me how great TV will be.05/21/2013 - 2:08pm

james_fudge: EZK it will depend on your provider, just like HBO Go i'd imagine.05/21/2013 - 2:05pm

PHX Corp: @IanC there's also a chance that those titles might be Xbox one exclusive, but it's too early to tell afaik05/21/2013 - 2:03pm

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